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  • From: Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] onions
  • Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:46:52 -0400

I sell mine for $3.00 a pound. i was selling Ailsa Craig sweet onions for $2 a pound partly because in the past at $2.50 a pound they were slow sellers and partly because over 50% of them were 1/2 pound or larger. they flew off the table and we have sold all but 2 pounds. the reds and yellows go for $3 a pound for larger sized and $3 for a 3/4 pound box of "pearl" onions (which is around $4 a pound). the Pearls are onions that are on the small side but too big for sets.

We always try to grow sets for spring planting and early onions by direct seeding a couple of beds, not thinning and not weeding all that well. About half are set sized and the rest are pearl sized with a few getting into medium onion sized.


I am also in the greater Cincinnati/Dayton area






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